The Georgia House went into extra innings on Friday as it worked to send as many measures as possible to the Senate on “Crossover Eve.” Next week’s deadline for legislation to cross to.
More than 300 bills from the 2021 legislative session made it to Gov. Brian Kemp s desk, and he only vetoed one of them.
Caption Gov. Kemp signs the FY 2022 budget in his office Monday, May 10, 2021. Credit: Gov. Brian Kemp s office
From a $27.2 billion budget to adoption reform to making the pecan the state nut, more than 300 bills and resolutions made their way to Gov. Brian Kemp s desk from the 2021 legislative session and only one bill was vetoed.
Georgia election officials are already grappling with the effects of a 98-page voting law signed by Kemp in late March, and at various press conferences around Georgia the governor touted everything from adoption reform to allowing to-go cocktails.
Sine Die: What passed and failed the 2021 Georgia legislative session
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ATLANTA - Georgia lawmakers were busy on the final day of the 2021 General Assembly. The only constitutional obligation lawmakers are required is to pass each general session a budget, something lawmakers worked well into the evening hashing out.
Earlier in the day, the House and Senate couldn’t quite agree on where to spend the state’s money, so they had to assign a conference committee to work it out. But the committee was able to reach an agreement and met at 2 p.m. to sign the conference committee report.
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